Latest Terry Bozzio Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

  Terry Bozzio

  Trying, I Can

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• I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.

  Terry Bozzio

  Trying, Way, Feels

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• I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.

  Terry Bozzio

  Opportunity, Thinking, Hollywood

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• I don't think I can play the game and sell myself.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• I'd love to do music for films.

  Terry Bozzio

  Film

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• You don't know where you're going.

  Terry Bozzio

  Knows

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• There's many possibilities for anything.

  Terry Bozzio

  Possibility

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• You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.

  Terry Bozzio

  Writing, Next, One Word

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• I'm happy doing what I do. That's ok. Some guy could appear tomorrow and do it much better than me, and so be it, but right now I'm just happy to be who I am doing what I do.

  Terry Bozzio

  Who I Am, Guy, Tomorrow

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• I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Tunes, Records

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• We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

  Terry Bozzio

  College, Discipline, Degrees

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• If you enjoy learning, if you enjoy the curiosity of music and what can be done with it, and stop looking at it as something you have to do because someone says this is what you have to do to be a professional, you know, learn it because you're curious about it and then I think you'll have a much better creative sense and enable this inner voice to come out. These things are not taught and are not encouraged.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Voice, Creative

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• Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

  Terry Bozzio

  Fame, Money And Fame, Inconvenient

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• The best thing is to find something you really love to do and enjoy that process for the rest of your life.

  Terry Bozzio

  Rest Of Your Life, Process, Enjoy

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• When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.

  Terry Bozzio

  Sports, Smart, Party

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• The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.

  Terry Bozzio

  Way, Kind, Linear

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• My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".

  Terry Bozzio

  Age, Want, Rich

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• I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.

  Terry Bozzio

  Kids, Thinking, Interesting

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• It's very difficult to make a living in music these days. All it takes is somebody paying.

  Terry Bozzio

  These Days, Difficult

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• Of course the headspace for the young musician is whatever the guy who is paying you says, is right, but that's all.

  Terry Bozzio

  Guy, Musician, Young

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• I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, College, Playing Music

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• Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

  Terry Bozzio

  Doe, High Standards, Standards

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• In the liner notes, music is fine by itself. It doesn't need any explanation.

  Terry Bozzio

  Needs, Notes Music, Fine

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• I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.

  Terry Bozzio

  Trying, Titles, Imagery

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• I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time. So the string melody, the first one is five notes, the next one is seven, and then the third one is five.

  Terry Bozzio

  Artist, Flow, Next

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